FELCO

The system – dubbed Federated Embedded inteL-server for Collaborative Operations (FELCO) – is a Processing,
Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) tool enabling warfighters to get geospatial data in real-time as opposed to hours with traditional downlink systems

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The U.S. Army Project Manager-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PM-UAS) is currently using FELCO in planned system flight tests and assessments

The FELCO system essentially compresses the PED information into real-time capture and synchronization of multiple data sources

FELCO was developed with hardware from Mercury and geospatial software from ITT

The hardware and software are scalable to enable compatibility with new sensors as they are added

Mercury technology used in the system includes the company’s Application-Ready Subsystems (ARS), which uses the Powerblock processing architecture

ITT’s open-standards PED software, called “Enhanced AGILE Access,?? and AdLib, enable users to search/discover, serve, and store information, reducing the latency issues common for downlink systems while maintaining the integrity of the geospatial information

As small as a typical portable hard drive and also low power, FELCO can be used not only in UAV applications, but also in catapult- and runway- launched vehicles, aerostats, and civil and military fixed-mount installations